10/30/06

I am being sarcastic, you know? Only the computer illiterate will be surprised that the boarding passes you print out on your home printer can be faked. I don't expect members of Congress to be computer or technology experts, but even if their eyes and brains don't tell them this, don't any of them have smart, computer-savvy aids with a clue?

In a more recent post, Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) repented of calling for Soghoian's arrest, but still sugested bad judgement. Dr. Avi Rubin also weighed in, "Even if he has a legitimate point, it shows a real lapse in judgement"

I suppose. Still, what's the difference between what I print out on my printer when I "check in," to a flight using an airline's web site and Soghoian's? Right, one is real. But, still... how does the TSA agent know that?

10/12/06

I—like a lot of you—was getting lots of "buy this hot stock" spam. The latest change I made to my Postfix installation is to add a check against the Spamhaus Block List. The addition to main.cf is under smtpd_client_restrictions, which now looks like this:

10/2/06

As of a few weeks ago, I was still having the problem I mentioned in Still Love and Hate Mail. I had found that if I remembered to Go Offline, then Go Online again, all was well. If not, the Mail client and the IMAP server got confused about what my Inbox looked like. Clearly, the mailbox state wasn't being updated until I disconnected. I religiously read the Apple discussion groups (for example, this thread). And found the solution.

If you create an mbx-format INBOX, by creating "#driver.mbx/INBOX" (note that "INBOX" must be all uppercase), then subsequent access to INBOX by any c-client based application will use the mbx-format INBOX. Any mail delivered to the traditional format mailbox in the spool directory (e.g. /var/spool/mail/$USER) will automatically be copied into the mbx-format INBOX and the spool directory copy removed.

Okay, cool How to create the INBOX. Conntect to your IMAP server using a telnet client and then issue the commands needed to create it. I saved my Inbox contents first, but this actually should not touch the spoolfile mailbox (On a UNIX system, this is something like /var/mail/fred for me and is in UNIX mailbox format.)

So, in terminal I did this (this is exactly what I typed except I typed in my real incomingmailserver name and my real password):